Drinking Water availability - Birdsville or Mt Dare

[Dirtydog16]

I know this an old thread but for what it is worth I went from North of Brisbane through Dalby out to Birdsville then down Birdsville track to Marre over to Lyndhurst and then up strezlecki to innaminka through thargominda, cunnamulla, st George and home. In June 2015.

We drank, showered and cooked with only whatever was freely available on the way.

The only two places that the water was hard to drink or brush teeth with was somewhere like windorah and thargominda. If you look on the map, they are one above the other and may share the same underground water source.

If the water is non potable the signs will tell you.

The locals drink the water and there are no signs about boiling to drink. (like the ones you see in parts of Tassie)

I would save your money in buying bagged or bottled water and would save the weight in carrying excess water with you.

Water was quite good everywhere else and there were 6 of us on the trip.

If you were worried you could also drop purification tablets in your drums before drinking. One pack of those would be cheaper and lighter than carrying excess water from somewhere else.

On another trip this year in June / July we also drank the water from Brisbane to normanton / karumba over to burketown to mt isa to emerald and home with the exception of Adel's Grove near lawn hill national park because they just pumped it straight from the creek and I don't remember if it was filtered or not. We used chlorine tabs on that water.

Cheers

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